Type casting and composing machine.



W. NIGHOLAS & W. AGKERMAN.

TYPE CASTING AND comosme MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1909.

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TYPE CASTING AND COMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1909.

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TYPE CASTING AND OOMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1909.

96 679 Patented July 19, 1910.

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APPLIGATION FILED MAY 22, 1909.

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Patented July 19 1910.

W. NICHOLAS & W. AGKBRMAN.

TYPE CASTING AND comrosme MACHINE.

APPLICATION TILED MAY 22, 1909.

Patented July 19', 1910.

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TYPE CASTING AND GOMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1909.

Patented July 19, 1910.

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TYPE CASTING AND GOMPOSING MACHINE.

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Patented July 19,1910.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 22,1909.

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Patented July 19, 1919.

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tin rensa onnrc WILLIAM NICHOLAS AND WILLIAM ACKERMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS T0 UNITED STATES GRAPHOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPE CASTING AND COMPOSING MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 19, 19110.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM NI HOLAS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and WILLIAM AGKERMAN, a citizen of the United States, both residents of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type Casting and Composing Machines, of which the following is a specification. 1

Our invention relates to that class of type machinery in which a composition is first recorded upon a suitable controller, and in which certain mechanisms are thereafter set by the controller, according to the record thereon, to govern the casting and setting up of justified lines of type.

The result to be accomplished by the invention hereinafter to be described is to make possible the combination in a single machine of an apparatus which places the record on the controller, and an apparatus which is thereafter set by the controller.

An important object of the invention is a controller which is fed entirely automatically from one to the other of the combined mechanisms; and means whereby, of therecords arried by the controller, the justification record, although necessarily the last for each line to be received on the controller, is the first for each line to act on the setting mechanisms.

Another object of the invention is a means for maintaining in the combined machine the same independence of action as if the machines were separate.

- Heretofore two distinct and separate machines, each in charge of an operator,.have ordinarily been employed to effect the operation o'f recording the composition, and the subsequent operation of casting the type. The space occupied by the two separate machines, the number of operators required to operate the same, and the necessity of transferring the record bearing controller from one machine to the other, have been serious objections to this class of machinery. The existence of these objectionable features has been lar ely due to certain difiiculties inherent to the Justification of the composition. The proper justification for any line, or section thereof, cannot readily be determined until the line has been recorded and its length registered. The justification, thus determined, is then dul registered on the controller immediately a er the line record to which it relates. If, however, the

spacing called for by any indicated just-ification is to be properly distributed along the line of type when cast and set up, the casting mechanism must be set for such indicated justification before the casting of the line commences. In other words, the order in which the justification record and the line record set the casting mechanism must be just the reverse of the order in which such records are placed upon the controller. Where as heretofore the recording and casting mechanisms are in separate machines, this reversal is easily effected by feeding the controller, usually a strip of tape, tail end foremost into the casting machine. Where, however, the one machine is to include both the recording and the casting mechanisms,

this reversal of order of feed between the two operations has presented considerable difficulty, and has not been eflected satisfactorily where a single controller is used.

In the present machine, we have overcome all of the difficulties presented by the requirements of justification. e have invented a novel style of controller and novel mechanism for manipulating the same in such a manner that the'justification records will set the casting mechanism in advance of the character or line records to which such justifications relate. The controller of our invention, instead of being a continuous .strip of perforated paper, as is common in the art, or some other continuous recordbearing surface, is composed of separate and independently movable elements each of which is adapted to receive and carry the rec 0rd of some type character, or of some selected justification. These elements having received their appropriate records are then stored in suitable magazines, the character records in one magazine and the j ustification records in another magazine. From their respective magazines and in the order required, the justification and character ele- -ments are then separately fed to the mechanism which sets themold and the justifier, the justification elements taking their proper place at the head of the lines.

In uniting, means of the present invention, a recordin or composing machine and the casting mac ine in a single machine, we have not sacrificed that independence of action between the two machines which is highly desirable in this art. The operation 

